Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known ant fossil, dating back 113 million years, in Brazil’s Crato Formation. The extinct species, named Vulcanidris cratensis, belonged to the hell ant lineage, known for its scythe-like jaws used to impale prey. This groundbreaking discovery pushes back the timeline of ant evolution by 10 million years, revealing their early global…
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, four decades after Rakesh Sharma’s iconic spaceflight on-board Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday. Singh made the remarks after reviewing the work of the Department of Space and the Indian…
A team of researchers led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Dr Nikku Madhusudhan claimed on Thursday to have found the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a star 120 light-years from Earth, New York Times reported. A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s…
The Indian Space Research Organization on August 16 brought up the EOS-08 Earth Observation Satellite onboard the small Satellite Launch Vehicle-D3 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The small satellite launch-D3 in its third and final development flight took off from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 9.17 am.
